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It was 1978, and nearly a decade into their recording career, Kool & the Gang — the once-dominant jazz and funk group whose biggest hits propelled clubs all over the world — were at a low point.
To celebrate their 40th Anniversary, The Greatest Hits Concert - live from Denver. Re-live the incredible story of Kool & The Gang through the songs that made the legends happen.
Kool & the Gang, one of the world’s greatest living groove-based bands, have been playing more than 100 shows a year for longer than Robert “Kool” Bell cares to remember.
Thirty years after first being eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, funk gods Kool & the Gang were finally inducted at a ceremony in Cleveland on Saturday night. The group that wrote ...
Ronald "Khalis" Bell, a founding member of Kool & the Gang and a driving force behind many of the band's greatest hits, has died. He was 68. Bell died suddenly on Wednesday at his home in the U.S ...
Kool & the Gang co-founder Ronald “Khalis” Bell, writer and producer on 1980's "Celebration" and 1985's "Cherish," died Sept. 9 at age 68. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...
Those hits and funky album cuts and long history have made Kool & The Gang one of the most sampled artists in music. “Summer Madness” alone has been sampled more than 250 times, and with the ...
KOOL & THE GANG BIOGRAPHY Kool & The Gang has sold over 70 million albums worldwide and influenced the music of three generations. Thanks to songs like Celebration, Cherish, Jungle Boogie, Summer ...
George Brown, a founding member of Kool & the Gang who played drums with the band and co-wrote such enduring standards as “Celebration,” “Jungle Boogie” and “Ladies Night,” died of ...
Known for hits including “Ladies Night,” “Jungle Boogie,” “Get Down on It” and “Celebration,” Kool & the Gang was formed in the mid-1960s in Jersey City, N.J., by brothers Robert ...
Kool & the Gang delivered all the hits at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. ... funk gods Kool & the Gang were finally inducted at a ceremony in Cleveland on Saturday night.
Kool & the Gang stayed on the R&B charts through the mid-1970s thanks to hits "Spirit of the Boogie," "Caribbean Festival" and "Love and Understanding (Come Together)," yet despite the group's ...